Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2025 Playlist
Steel Hammer starts performance TONIGHT!
Steel Hammer, the latest collaboration from Pulitzer Prize winning composer Julia Wolfe, seven-time Obie winner SITI Company, and the New York-based ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars, starts...
Maria Schneider Orchestra TONIGHT at Morse Recital Hall
Multi-Grammy Award Winner, Maria Schneider and her Orchestra will be presenting her newest work, co-commissioned by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, TONIGHT at Morse Recital Hall.
Abraham.In.Motion Opens TONIGHT!
Abraham.In.Motion's acclaimed Live Music Program opens TONIGHT at the University Theater.
Lila Downs invites You to come on down to the New Haven Green tonight!
Lila Downs invites you to come on down to the New Haven Green tonight, listen to some Latino music and enjoy this beautiful weather!
George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic TONIGHT on the New Haven Green!
George Clinton says that he is ready to "tear the roof off" the stage TONIGHT on the New Haven Green! The band is all sound-checked and ready to rock!
Our Ladies are Here!
Tonight was the official opening of the festival featuring a sold out performance of "Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour." Don's miss these amazing ladies in their US Premiere!
Getting everything set for Our Ladies
Things are still being built on the New Haven Green, but our crew has now started hanging the lights and prepping the set for "Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour" at the Yale Rep!
Load-In Day 2
Load-In continues on the New Haven Green! We are still working on setting up and rigging the massive First Niagara Stage. It takes a full festival crew plus members from IATSE Local 74 a full 4...
We are starting to build Festival 21!
Our crew started construction out on the New Haven Green today. Trailers are being delivered, trucks are being unloaded and the First Niagara Stage is under construction!
Cooperation Amidst Crisis: May Day 1970 and Its Lessons
On May 1, 1970, a crowd of nearly 30,000 radicals descended on Yale to protest the murder trial of nine Black Panthers. In this talk, Henry Chauncey, then assistant to Yale’s president, discusses how...
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It is our privilege to bring a world of arts and ideas together for you each summer. A Festival like this, with 200+ events over 15 days takes years of planning - from the big picture to the small...